Tim Hall wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 3:41 pm
I suppose I'd better come clean and confess that I am building up two armies for pointy sticks, very loosely based around the Battle of Trimsos and the wars of Tony Bath's Hyboria. So they will be sort of Arabish and Late Romanish, with weird and wonderful allies. All figures bought, GB plastic Late Roman infantry in the process of being prepped, a pile of odds and sods sort of painted ancients acquired from EB being unbased ready for tarting up, and I treated myself and got a load of GB plastic:- 24 Arab cav and 40 Arab inf, as well as 20 old Essex metal Late Roman cav painted for me, so feeling a bit smug and wanky about those.
I can't help but envisage an enormous pointy stick campaign/battle at Ayton in our collective futures.
Told you I needed to save those Vikings for something else!
Yes you did. With the huge and various selection of plastic Ancients and Dark Ages boxes available an army is quite affordable, The Victrix Vikings and Saxons boxes can make up to 60 figures each.
Rules? You ask me what rules do I use. No, I don't do rules.
The Victrix Vikings are gorgeous but very pricey for plastics. Though if you get 60 in a pack then that makes sense. They have Normans coming soon, as do Gripping Beast.
I spent a few hours this week assembling multi part metal Celtic chariots from Foundry that I bought off a certain LAW member at Ayton this year. It’s not a quick job
Jeremy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:19 pm
I spent a few hours this week assembling multi part metal Celtic chariots from Foundry that I bought off a certain LAW member at Ayton this year. It’s not a quick job
They're not as time consuming as the Redoubt Trojan Chariots, which i've found need all sorts of supports whilst the glue sets.
I picked up my pointy general and some velites from Colonel Bills at Leeds, so my Legion is nearly complete, just the small matter of painting it. The figs are Aventines and very nice indeed.
